Practicing Applied Anthropology Across Discontinuous Social Fields

Trained in social anthropology (MA), cultural-medical anthropology (PhD), public health (MPH), Keith V. Bletzer is Adjunct Faculty at Arizona State University, School of Human Evolution and Social Change (USA). Since receiving his doctorate, he has authored Down Country Lanes, Behind Abandoned Houses (2015) and fifty-seven articles in journals (fourteen co-authored) and book chapters (one co-authored), as well as editing Assaults: Interventions, Preventive Strategies and Societal Implications (2013). He has participated in team projects and single-investigator research focused on prevention-education and social justice initiatives for diverse ethnicities in four US regions. He has part-time university/community college teaching experience (in anthropology and social science) in two regions of the US, and seven years of full-time teaching experience at three secondary schools in Southern Arizona. He is a Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology (elected April 1995) and a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association (elected April 1993).